winter party menu
3 courses £33.00
1st November 2009 to 31st January 2010
Starters
• Crispy duck salad, cucumber, spring onion, pickled ginger, sesame soy dressing.
• Plum tomato tart with whipped goat’s cheese, shallot & herb salad, basil oil.
• Bouillabaisse, rouille, croutons, Gruyere.
• Partridge & ham hock terrine, chutney, toast & pickles, served with a little glass of sloe gin.
• Crispy fried wild mushroom & mozzarella risotto cakes, roquette & Parmesan.
• Sesame seared tuna loin, oriental pickled vegetables, lemon & wasabi dressing, crispy wonton.
• ½ freshly prepared lobster served chilled, lemon, mayonnaise, tomato, avocado, basil. (£3.50 surcharge)
Mains
• Pan fried fillet of seabass, sauté garlic King shrimp skewer, chargrilled Mediterranean vegetables, salsa Verdi.
• Grilled escalope of halibut, lemon, parsley, capers & nut brown butter, parsley mash.
• Chicken breast baked with goats cheese in pancetta, warm chorizo salad, puy lentil, crispy potato, tarragon mustard dressing.
• Baked parmigiano layers of aubergine, tomato, courgette & mozzarella, basil, olives, Parmesan & overnight tomatoes.
• Very slow roast belly of Emma Jackson’s Old Spot pork**, crackling, pomme puree, roast bramley & winter roots.
• Pink carved fillet of venison, McSweens haggis, mash, baby spinach, roast figs, port & juniper jus.
• Aberdeen Angus fillet steak, peppercorn sauce, skinny frites, roast tomato, mushroom, watercress. (£3.00 surcharge)
**Buy Robert Jackson’s Old Spot pork from his farm (01491 681145)
Sharing Bowls
Our main courses don’t particularly require ‘side orders’; we suggest the sharing bowls are good 1 between 4 guests.
• Sugar snaps, winter greens & fine beans. (£5.00)
• Lyonnaise potatoes with sauté onions. (£5.00)
Desserts
• Cornish Yarg, Dorset Blue, Somerset Brie, oatcakes, grapes, celery & chutney.
• Dark chocolate mousse profiteroles, hot white chocolate sauce.
• Sticky toffee pudding, toffee sauce, clotted cream.
• Vanilla panacotta, mango & orange soup, mango & orange.
• Tiramisu.
• Lemon tart, thick cream, raspberry coulis.